The streaming giant and public service broadcaster have joined forces to develop and fund new dramas showcasing disabled voices over a new, five-year partnership.
The BBC and Netflix plan to make a webinar available to producers alongside a creative brief and outline of the process. The companies will assess pitches together although the BBC will act as an entry point for submissions and pitches.a moving MacTaggart Lecture at the Edinburgh TV Festival “Gender, race, sexuality, all rightly get discussed at length. Disability gets relegated out,” Thorne said at the lecture. “Producers have ignored disabled writers. Commissioners haven’t taken the opportunity to tell disabled stories. There are very few disabled people in front of the camera, and even fewer behind it.”
Better too late than never!
This is necessary and good, but BBC doesn't deserve any of the goodwill as long as they are promoting TERF bullshit.
Just gonna be another group of able-bodied cishet white dudes going 'ah let's just give that black woman in a wheelchair one season for her show then go back to the millionth unoriginal adult comedy cartoon trying to be family guy or rick and morty'
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OMG! This is great to hear! as I am a disabled singer!
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